Gender, Bodies and Technology

Graffiti on a wall in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2015. Translation: "Less talk; more action."

Sign on a building in Antigua Guatemala in March 2018. Translation: "Crimes of passion don't exist, they don't kill us for love. It's called femicide and it is hatred toward women.

Sign at a tree-sit against the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

People engaging in a protest against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in July 2018.

Also known as GBT, is an initiative within the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Virginia Tech that aims to creatively and intellectually explore the multiple, proliferating, and gendered dimensions of technologized bodies and embodied technologies. Through our biannual conference, public events, and digital presence, we seek to demonstrate, theorize, and perform the discursive and material nodes around which gender, bodies, and technologies both cohere and fracture. We invite scholars, activists, and artists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, life sciences, disability studies, STEM fields, and queer and feminist science studies to join us as we explore the intersections of gender, bodies, and technology in contexts ranging from virtual reality labs and engineering classrooms to grassroots movements and queer and feminist hacking spaces. How, we ask, might topics such as computer hacking, mass incarceration, or neuroscience produce new lines of inquiry when filtered through a GBT perspective?